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Defining and Applying a Method for Establishing Gold Standard Sets of Emergency Room Visit Data
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The goal of this paper is to describe a methodology used to create a gold standard set of emergency department (ED) data that can subsequently be used to evaluate the sensitivity and specificity of syndrome definitions.… thod_For_Establishing_Gold_Standard_Sets_Of_Emergency_Room_Visit_Data.pdf Submitted by elamb on Mon, 07/30/2018 - 08:40 … definitions. METHODS There are about 1.1 millions total visits in the North Carolina Disease Event Tracking and … 2005 static database. Once we removed all injury related visits we were left with 956,015 records. Automated and … -
Improving System Ability to Identify Symptom Complexes in Free-Text Data
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Text-based syndrome case definitions published by the Center for Disease Control (CDC)1 form the basis for the syndrome queries used by the North Carolina Disease Event Tracking and Epidemiologic Collection Tool (NC DETECT). Keywords within these… read more… ('%') indicate that zero or more characters of any type may substitute for the wildcard.2 The term “ha” as a synonym … ('%') indicate that zero or more characters of any type may substitute for the wildcard.2 The term “ha” as a synonym … SQL Server 2005 Books Online, http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library /ms174214.aspx, Accessed June 29, 2006. … -
Reverse Engineering of a Syndrome Definition for Influenza
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We report here on the use of the North Carolina Bioterrorism and Emerging Infection Prevention System (NC BEIPS, www.ncbeips.org) to reverse engineer a syndrome definition of influenza for the purpose of influenza surveillance.… illness, a combination of evidence of fever and another com- mon symptom was used. The frequency of this com- bination of symptoms in patients diagnosed with in- … RESULTS Mention of the term “flu” in either the chief com- plaint (CC) or triage note (TN) field (without evi- … -
Evolution of a Syndromic Surveillance Case Definition
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In North Carolina, select hospital emergency departments have been submitting data since 2003 for use in syndromic surveillance. These data are collected, stored, and parsed into syndrome categories by the North Carolina… read more… zoster were not included. From the 813,536 ED visits in the database for the calendar year 2004, all visits with the ICD-9-CM code of 052.0-052.9 (CP) and all visits meeting the syndrome definition for FRI were … -
Situational Awareness Using Web-based Annotation and Custom Reporting
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While early event detection systems aim to detect disease outbreaks before traditional means, following up on the many alerts generated by these systems can be time-consuming and a drain on limited resources. Authorized users at local, regional… read more… in February 2007; the Custom Event Report was released in May 2007. With Annotation, users can view the EARS signals … City. Emerg Infect Dis [serial on the Internet]. 2004 May http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol10no5/03- 0646.htm. …